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Outside Magazine, February 2007

Essential Skills 2007
Turn Your Phone Into a Coach

By Justin Nyberg


Intro | Show Off Like a Pro | Sneak In a Ski Vacation | Electro-Pimp Your Ride or Burn Less Gas | Just Say "Xie Xie" and Be iLingual | Don't Bonk | Roll With It | Live Life in the Bike Lane and Lock This Way | Ignore Borat | Maximize That Weekend Escape | Turn Your Phone Into a Coach | Be a Sake Sommelier or Mix It Up | Get Paddled | ¡Viva la Revolución! and Keep an Eye on Cuba

essential skills
Illustration by Dan Page

At long last, the transformation of your mobile device (don't call it a cell phone) into digital Swiss Army knife is complete. There's the phone part, the camera, the audio player, the GPS, the phaser... and now the trainer. With sites like AllSportGPS.com ($7 a month), SportsDo.net ($9.75), and BimActive.com ($10), you can remotely log your workouts via satellite. While you're running or biking, the site's busy uploading what your GPS is telling you: speed, distance, altitude, route, and averages. Back home, study your stats, download sessions for training against yourself later, and share your times and Google Earth–tagged routes with other users. Now get out there and beat that blip.



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Intro | Show Off Like a Pro | Sneak In a Ski Vacation | Electro-Pimp Your Ride or Burn Less Gas | Just Say "Xie Xie" and Be iLingual | Don't Bonk | Roll With It | Live Life in the Bike Lane and Lock This Way | Ignore Borat | Maximize That Weekend Escape | Turn Your Phone Into a Coach | Be a Sake Sommelier or Mix It Up | Get Paddled | ¡Viva la Revolución! and Keep an Eye on Cuba

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